The RD&E workshop will target up to 50 of WA's leading industry members, who will combine with government and university professionals to identify research priorities for WA. This is the inaugural event for an annual workshop that will iteratively update an RD&E plan for WA. The event will be held on 28 March at the Fremantle Sailing Club, with the venue, most presenters and the event facilitator confirmed.

Benefit to be provided to FRDC
Access
- 1 x Complimentary ticket to Thursday’s BioInnovation Conference
- 1 x Complementary registration for Welcome dinner
- 2 x tickets to the RD&E workshop

Recognition
- Acknowledgement at the opening and closing of all events
- One pull-up banner for display at the conference & workshop
- Your logo will appear on sponsor slides during the events
- Your logo will appear on digital content relating to all events, including LinkedIn posts and newsletters
- Your logo and 200-word profile, available on the festival website

Promotion
- A speaker role at the Thursday Conference to promote Finnovation.
- A speaker role at the Friday RD&E Workshop

The project involves significant collaboration and co-investment by sector partners. This includes cash funding from the aquaculture council of WA ($6300 ex. GST), in-kind contributions from DPIRD (estimated at $2,300 ex GST), university and industry presenters (TBD).

AgriFutures growᴬᴳ⋅ is the platform for Australian and global agrifood innovation. Explore research, technology, and commercialisation opportunities in one place. Connect with a diverse ecosystem including researchers, investors, and startups and discover funding avenues, list projects, and engage with over 400 organisations.

Agricultural research is vital for ensuring food security, sustainable farming practices, and rural development. AgriFutures growAG. involves collaboration between the Department of Agriculture Fisheries and Forestry (DAFF) and Australia’s 15 Research & Development Corporations (RDCs), collating details on the vast rural RDC investment landscape. Collation of project details on growᴬᴳ is currently a manual, keyword-based tagging system that suffers from limitations:
- Limited Semantic Understanding: Keywords often fail to capture the nuanced relationships between projects, leading to fragmented information retrieval.
- Scalability Issues: Manual tagging is time-consuming and prone to inconsistencies, hindering efficient data management as the database grows.
- Lack of Interoperability: The current system lacks the ability to seamlessly integrate with other agricultural datasets and knowledge bases.
This project proposes to develop an AI-driven solution for semantically linking agricultural research projects, enabling more accurate and comprehensive project navigation and knowledge discovery. By leveraging Natural Language Processing (NLP) and knowledge graph technologies, we aim to transform the current keyword-based system into a dynamic and interconnected knowledge repository.